DeeringAmps


Here's a little eye candy for Luteman & Bristol...

Oh yes! That's a lovely case you've got there . . 

Indeed v nice. Unfortunately not available in uk, but yeah touchscreen tilt console view looks the shizzle. Looks a good option for a second screen left or right of the main screen in a studio.

You guys should think about doing a beatscape/maschine kinda thing using pads on the screen. It is only a matter of time before velocity sensetive screens are available. iPads are vel sensetive so beatscape app over wifi in x2 could be v interesting.

Thanks for the heads up on the kit used.

There is no compulsion whatsoever to use the touch features. That is only one part (albeit pretty important and cool) to the X2 story. If anything, the touch support helped improve some of the mouse oriented features such as scrolling in the prochannel. There are plenty of other features, enhancements and stability improvements that Make X2A a huge update even without considering touch.

Regarding touch, once you have used a tablet you will see that there are some gestures that are far more efficiently done than with a mouse. Scrolling, zooming, and multitouch operations if done well make it hard to go back to using a mouse when touch is available.  Multi-touch is in the future for all portable computers and in a year or so you will likely be hard pressed to find one without touch support. Its one of the most important UX features we chose to support for the next generation of PC's. 

Touch yes, multitouch no. Touch gestures fallback to being treated like mouse messages when there is no explicit touch support implemented.

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk
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There is no compulsion whatsoever to use the touch features. That is only one part (albeit pretty important and cool) to the X2 story. If anything, the touch support helped improve some of the mouse oriented features such as scrolling in the prochannel. There are plenty of other features, enhancements and stability improvements that Make X2A a huge update even without considering touch.

Regarding touch, once you have used a tablet you will see that there are some gestures that are far more efficiently done than with a mouse. Scrolling, zooming, and multitouch operations if done well make it hard to go back to using a mouse when touch is available.  Multi-touch is in the future for all portable computers and in a year or so you will likely be hard pressed to find one without touch support. Its one of the most important UX features we chose to support for the next generation of PC's. 

I recall our discussion on the topic of touch screens earlier this year Noel.  Way to go in having it implemented before the year was out!  And I agree with your sentiments above...

Guess X2a will make it possible for everyone to create their own Raven.
http://www.slateproaudio.com/products/raven/

Looking forward to it!

Best Regards
Ludvig

vinny199


I'm ignorant about large touch screens. Does it mean having them very close to your eyes?

you have to operate them as if they were a tablet, don't you? which means you can't have the screen tucked in at the end of your desk, but instead it has to be right at the front of your desk, making the rest of your desk unusable?

is that how it works?

You can use it just like you would a normal screen. The big difference is that you can touch the screen but beyond that, it acts like any other non-touch display. 

Ok Noel is all wonderful but.........WHEN????????????

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk
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Also, if you don't own a touch screen you might be able to take advantage of some touch features via a trackpad on some notebooks if the hardware and driver supports it. 
See this link

And check out this too :
http://blogcritics.org/scitech/article/logitech-t650-touchpad-review-magic-trackpad/





-- one of a few out there and I'm sure we'll see many more in the days to come.  I tried some of these devices out at a local Microsoft store and they seemed pretty good, and the touch screens were excellent.  And much better than anything that was used with Windows 7.  Touch is what makes Windows 8 appealing to me, but I have to say I don't care for many other things about the latest OS.  Windows 8 feels very schizophrenic on a desktop....

When you have a touch device attached, you get a screen keyboard for typing provided by the OS. 

Also, yes if you try to use something other than direct manipulation, it's like puppeteering.   

Our focus for touch was the broad gestures first, like being able to scroll and zoom.  Since doing that I haven't had to grab the mouse to scroll or zoom and the experience is so much nicer because of that.

We also went further and implemented multitouch so in the console you can manipulate as many faders as your touch device supports.
Tip: when shopping for a touch monitor, run mspaint and try to see how many lines you can draw at once.  Some external displays only support 2 touch points.  Some of the ultrabooks support 5.  I recently saw an all in one pc that supported 10 touch points.  I believe the Planar model mentioned supports 20 touch points so you can work with a friend.

Look for details on touch/gestures/etc. soon on our blog.

Keith

Noel, first thank you for commenting.

I completely understand the need to prepare for touch screen interfacing, as it clearly is the future, not just for displays, but future integration with tablets, smartphones, etc.

One of Cakewalk's great attractors is its ability to stay in front of technology (native 64 bit, delay compensation, etc) and even some ideas that didn't quite get there, like DXi.....

With Windows 8 still growing and the great touch interface debate still raging, I am only hoping Cakewalk will continue to focus on workflow in general and not get hung up on touch interface issue which may draw resources away from core development.

I am not a fanboy, but I have been using Cakewalk since Twelvetone's midi sequencer with a korg M1 and ProAudio/sonar incarnations have been part of my personal system for longer than I care to admit, primarily because it gets the job done with a minimum amount of dicking around.

Bells and whistles are fun, but getting 'her done  pays the bills. 

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, don't drink and drive.

WDI

I never thought I'd be into the whole touch screen thing but after using a tablet the last year I've really come to like it a lot. I don't think I'd be into a touch screen computer monitor though. When ever I try them in the store I'm not really into it. But it would be cool if cakewalk made a tablet app as an extention of sonar. That would be cool.

If you have an Android tablet, you can use the TouchDAW app to control SONAR. If you're on iOS, there's one for that too, but can't recall the name.


Scott

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